Report: Lightning to request permission to speak with Dineen about Head Coaching job

The McGuire rumors were not smokescreen. That would imply deliberate use of the media to fake out the media. Vinik does not care for the media, period.

It was people making stuff up, or just a game of telephone. “McGuire interviewed.” “McGuire interviewed and vinik liked him.” “McGuire interviewed becasue Yzerman is out…” etc.

I’ve seen the game of Telephone too often with stories so far this offseason. Very lazy reporting in getting facts right the first time.

Dineen is only going to be one of several candidates to be talked to. This is jsut the first step of a process.

Somehow I doubt they’ll have the same success in concealing the coaching candidates/search as they did with the GM search. I’m sure they’d like to try, but looks like the cat’s out of the bag…

His name was out there (Yzerman), and that seemed to come from the fact Vinik asked permission (and was leaked out through Detroit), Besides that, how much of the GM search played out in the media compared to, say, the Melrose hiring? The polar opposite of a search — where everything leaked out entirely weeks before hand.

I mean, you are right — his name was out there weeks before hand… But everything else about the entire GM search (and there were others interviewed) was conducted in the dark (which drove people crazy and, thus the game of Telephone )